She took charge of responsibility for her sister who had a baby early and is mentally handicapped and incapable. She is proud of her country who she says is a place full of beaches for tourism where people work hard to preserve nature and the forest they have left.

Mariel also believes that challenges is where opportunities come from and it is God’s will to be that way because it where we grow and learn from experience. The environment she believes is where she had learned to see through other people’s goodness.